Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will erase or cross out the second word and substitute the word ‘ thou ’ . |
| 2 | Where the last day for doing any act or taking a proceeding is a Sunday , Christmas Day , Good Friday or Monday or Tuesday in Easter week , or on a day on which the offices of the court are closed , the act or proceeding may be done or taken on the next day afterwards which is not one of the aforesaid days . |
| 3 | The eternal westerly swell rolled lazily across our wake and wiped out the last trace of our intrusion . |
| 4 | One occasion was when my daughter , who I had suspected was a better reader than she had ever let on , casually picked up The Wind in the Willows while I was unpacking after a house-move , and read out the first page with great expression and hardly any mistakes . |
| 5 | So , with ‘ fly away Peter ’ you lift up your left hand and , as your fingers go out of sight behind your ears , you put away your index finger and bring out the second finger . |
| 6 | He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again . |
| 7 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
| 8 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 9 | Look at figure 1 at the end of this chapter and cover up the last column . |
| 10 | Her aim was simple ; to head up the coast under cover of the bushes and seek out the first help she could . |
| 11 | The pupils thought he 'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with more surrealistic pieces . |
| 12 | The Open Software Foundation last week announced the general availability of Release 1.1 of its OSF/1 operating system and trundled out the first snapshot of the Distributed Management Environment , for members . |
| 13 | But I mean a mother that could n't sleep all night , and get up the next day , having to cope with the family , erm you know , thing things like that , they 're very difficult . |
| 14 | At the end , you were totally blind and deaf to it , you 'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and the mix was still going on ! |
| 15 | It is truly said that he can go to bed at night with a clear sky as far as Home Affairs are concerned and wake up the next morning with a major crisis on his hands . |
| 16 | Carson started to climb the stairs , passing some stacks of yellow newsprint and a bicycle which was chained to the rotting wood of the balustrade , before turning and starting up the next flight . |
| 17 | IBM has paid out $3.63 in dividends so far this year , and cutting out the fourth quarter payout altogether would save it a very welcome $680m or so . |
| 18 | By the eighteenth century growing sugar and carrying out the first stages of refining it were the main economic activities on the islands . |
| 19 | Things would deteriorate rather quickly , for Alberto would return to his hotel in the evening with a sculpture eight to twelve inches tall under his arm and come back the next day with a piece no more than three or four inches high … |
| 20 | I guess he must have seen him go in sometime late , and come out the next morning . ’ |
| 21 | Firstly , jump up and collect the shield , then go left , jump on the platform to your left and then the platform on your right , grab the weight , climb the right wall and throw the weight on the switch , jump/fly up onto the block on the wall , go left and cross the gap on the swing , fly up two platforms and run right , go under the guillotine , jump up the pipe and collect a weight , walk left and fall off the last platform , throw the weight on the switch , go left and use the fly to climb up the platform , take the weight and throw it on the switch above you . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't tempt me , ’ she said with a wry laugh , and picked up the next file . |
| 23 | After the seventh defendant had resigned from the plaintiffs the three refined the business plan and set up the fourth defendant and the fifth defendant companies . |
| 24 | When the selected pile alone remained , he switched on a powerful reading spotlamp above the table , took a jeweller 's loupe from his pocket , a pair of tweezers in his right hand , and held up the first stone to the light . |
| 25 | Being obliged to earn a living without intermission , Jane had no time to pick and choose , but snapped up the first offer — on a woman 's magazine . |